The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1806 - This Celebrity’s God Awful Divorce Announcement Is A Lesson For Us All

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

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a career where he's best known for fighting very hard for the 26th place in the NASCAR truck series, while the actual contenders are busy lapping him. But Munez has not completely dropped out of Hollywood. He just started the Malcolm in the middle reboot miniseries on Hulu, which very few people watched or cared about. But they did make sure to include all the obligatory, obligatory woke updates, you know, such as introducing a non-volute. binary sibling for Malcolm and revealing that his black friend is now in a gay interracial relationship and has an adopted son. So they checked all the boxes, except in a surprising twist, they didn't have Brian Cranston's character, the father, come out as trans. So I guess they're

saving that for the reboot of the reboot in 2029. In short, Frankinez has had a mediocre career since reaching the zenith of his career at the age of 14. He hasn't received much attention of late, and for good reason. He's not relevant anymore. No one cares about anything he's doing. And there's no shame in that. I mean, it's probably been a major lifestyle upgrade in too many ways to list. This is a period in his life where he's supposed to focus on raising his family and counting the many blessings he's enjoyed. And by that, I mean all of the residual checks that are still pouring in. By 40, most child actors end up homeless outside of a Denny's pants around their ankles, begging every passing stranger for a few dollars so they can get a bust

ticket to Milwaukee, which, as we know, is homeless drug addict code for buying crack, Munez was somehow able to avoid that fate. He managed to dodge the curse of childhood fame and start a family that, to all outward appearances, seem to be healthy and happy. And that's an achievement in its own right. I mean, in terms of accomplishments, a child actor becoming not a crackhead is like a normal person, you know, placing in the top 100 in the Boston Marathon or something. It's not the kind of thing that you will win the Presidential Medal of Freedom for, but it's quite impressive in its own right. Unfortunately, however, Frankie has just undone all of that goodwill in one fell swoop

with one of the most agonizingly cringy posts ever to curse the feeds of unsuspecting social media users. Yesterday, across all of his profiles, he announced that he and his wife were getting a divorce, and he framed the divorce as something he's happy about, which he obviously isn't, and as a mutual decision, which it obviously wasn't. But before we get into Munez's statement, a statement that reflects a larger cultural trend and agenda, which is the only thing that makes this worth talking about in the first place. Here is the video that he uploaded along with his announcement. And in case you can't see it, the caption reads, Who says you can't stay best friends with your baby mama?

The fact that he's a 40-year-old white man using the term baby mama should make this video less surprising, though no less excruciating to witness. Here it is. Now, for those mercifully listening to the audio podcast, the footage I just played shows Frankie and his wife dancing together in the living room in celebration of their divorce. There's a lengthy caption where he excitedly talks about the divorce, like he's announcing a marriage rather than the dissolution of one. And we'll get to that in a moment. But the video itself is a tragedy, especially given the context. Although admittedly, there's no context where a 40-year-old man should be posting videos of himself dancing. It's undignified. It's unfair to those of us who had the misfortune to be born with eyes. Frankie, like most 40-year-old men, and I say this as one myself, moves with all of the grace and rhythm of like a three-legged deer hobbling away after getting shot in the ass. That's why dancing is meant for people who are younger or at least blacker. So if you feel the need to dance as a middle-aged man, for some ungodly reason, go somewhere behind a locked door, lower the blinds, draw the shades, turn off the lights, make sure all the other humans and domestications, animals have evacuated the premises, and then if you must, dance in private. So the rest of us are

not forced to witness this ghastly sight. But in this context, which is a cucked, henpecked weakling convulsing offbeat to a bad pop song, pretending to be happy that his wife is leaving him, displaying the sincere enthusiasm and wearing the genuine smile of a North Korean citizen, giving a standing ovation to dear leader because the other option was burial in a mass grave. in this context, it is unbearable to behold. And when I first watched this, probably because I was so overwhelmed with disgust that I turned it off in 3.2 seconds, I didn't even notice that their five-year-old child joins in on the dancing. Frankie invites his son over and plays air guitar with his body all to celebrate the fact that his son won't be growing up in a stable two-parent household.

They apparently sat the child down, explained very somberly that mommy and daddy still love each other, but don't want to be around each other. or live in the same house or on the same planet. And then as the child was tearfully trying to process the worst trauma of his life, they excitedly declared, hey, we have an idea. Let's have a dance party. I mean, dancing with your wife and child to celebrate the fact that your child would no longer have mommy and daddy in the home is one of the most depraved things a Hollywood actor has ever done, which is obviously a very, very high bar to clear.

In a twist nobody saw coming, Frankie Munez has surged ahead of like Charlie Sheen and Kevin Spacey in the race to be the worst living Hollywood degenerate. So if he can't win a NASCAR race, at least he can win this one, I guess, is the idea. How are we supposed to interpret what happened specifically in Frankie's case? Well, I can't say one way or another because I don't know any of these people or want to. Just looking at that video, though, it's pretty apparent that his wife came up with the idea. I mean, no man would subject himself to something like this voluntarily. And also from a statistical perspective, these sorts of things are normally the wife's idea. And I just mean posting dancing videos on the internet, although that too. Depending on what studies you look at,

women are responsible for filing something like 70 to 80 percent of divorces. This has been one of the most enduring consequences of the feminist movement. Women have been bombarded with relentless propaganda about how they're independent, they don't need no man. They're taught that they can murder their children if they're inconvenient. So obviously breaking up a family is no big deal. I mean, if you would dismember your child for your own independence, then dismembering your marriage is like nothing in comparison. And as a result, divorce has become something of a social contagion. Now, the social contagion aspect of divorce is nothing new. What is new, or at least increasingly mainstream, is the relentless effort to present divorce as something empowering and fulfilling, a thing to be

celebrated. I mean, not to get too hung up on this one example of the guy from Malcolm in the middle, now the star of Malcolm in the Cuck chair. But the example is illuminating, especially when you read the caption, and it's a symptom of the larger problem. But here it is, Life Update. Following a period of separation that we kept private, Paige and I have decided to move forward with ending our marriage.

After 10 beautiful years together, we've grown in ways that made us realize our relationship feels most natural and strong as a deep friendship and as co-parents. We share an incredible son who remains the center of our world, and we're both happier, stronger parents because of the love and growth we've shared. I'll read the rest of it in a moment, but already this feels like an email you'd get from HR when they deactivate your key card. We've decided to move forward with ending our marriage.

There's not an actual human on the planet who's ever uttered that sentence. I'm confident in saying that. You'll only get a line like that from like Brenda from HR or chat GPT. If there's one thing AI chatbots are good at, it's putting together grammatically correct sentences. that manage to be coherent and yet have no meaning at the exact same time. And also notice the attempt typical of these Hollywood divorce announcements to pretend that divorce is the result of personal growth, when really it is the result usually of two selfish people

who never figured out how to stop being selfish, the problem is precisely a lack of growth, or if it was growth, it was growth of the wrong thing. Okay, saying divorce is the result of growth, it's like saying terminal cancer is the result of growth. that's technically and medically true, but the problem is that the wrong thing was growing. And as for being a co-parent, well, and you know, when you hear this from divorced people, oh, we're going to co-parent.

Well, that's the arrangement you already had, geniuses. That's called being married. Divorced couples are not co-parents. They are competing parents. If you are cooperating parents, if you are parents on the same team, you'd still be married. it's certainly a practical impossibility for any child to remain the center of their world, as Frankie claims in this scenario, especially because you get divorced because you want to be the center of your own world, which is one of the reasons why it's so revolting that these people insist on including their child and the messaging about their divorce.

And at any rate, the child actually should not be the center of your world anyway. It's another thing you hear in these divorce announcements from celebrities. They always say, well, you know, our child will continue to be the most important thing in our lives. well yeah like that's that that that's actually not true because you are the most important thing in your life very clearly that's how you live but but it's also that's not even an ideal that you should strive for actually the center of your world should not be your child it should actually be well it should be your faith and your marriage should be the next closest thing to the center the child orbits around that like a planet around the sun the child is not himself the sun with you and your wife as planets orbiting him not to torture the cosmic analogy to death, but the thing in the solar system with the most mass is the thing that everything else orbits around. Your child should not, in a metaphorical or frankly literal sense, have the most mass. Your marriage is the center. It's the thing with a gravitational pull that your child revolves around.

Putting the child at the center of your world is very likely, in fact, almost certain, to result in exactly what's happened here. I mean, it would be like trying to reorganize our solar system with Pluto at the middle of it. Apocalyptic chaos and destruction are the only possible results. So, of course, in this case, within a few minutes, Munez or his PR people apparently realized the footage wasn't playing well, so the video was deleted from all of his social media profiles. But in its place, we get this message, along with a family photo featuring his son, again, with the son is in it, as if they're trying to convince the world that their five-year-old child approves of their divorce, as if it's remotely possible for a five-year-old to have any conception of what his parents,

are doing. And there's no need to cite any scientific studies on this point because everyone knows intuitively that divorce destroys the lives of children who have a hardwired need for two parents. Every child is born to two parents biologically. It's always been that way through the whole history of the world. So obviously it's better. You know, you need two parents in order to be born. So obviously the best scenario is that you are raised by two parents. But there is one relevant data point that I'll share anyway, just because it's helpful to put the consequences in some context. Four years ago, looking at data from 17 countries, researchers in the Netherlands, writing in the journal Demographic Research, found that when it comes to a child's educational

progress, quote, parental divorce had a larger impact than parental death. So I'll say that again, when measuring a child's educational attainment, how far he progressed in school and how well he does in school, parental divorce had a larger impact than parental death. And that's just one data point of many. And it's a data point that says in this very measurable way, it's better for a child if his mother dies rather than divorces his father and vice versa. And it's not at all difficult to see why that would be the case. Divorce requires a conscious rejection of the family unit, a deliberate betrayal of the vows. Death usually doesn't imply either of those things. And that's why it breeds a lifelong resentment and confusion. It derails a child's life to such a degree that almost

nothing else, not even the death of a parent, can compare. Let's finish up reading this post so we can move on, which is what everyone in the audience at this point is begging me to do. So it says, quote, I'm endlessly grateful to Page for everything she's done for me and our family. She put her own dreams on hold so I could chase mine. She was always my biggest supporter. That foundation of respect and friendship isn't going anywhere. We're excited to keep building Munez racing together and to co-parent our boy, the same

teamwork and love we've always had. We're closing one chapter with gratitude and opening the the next with bright futures ahead for us as individuals and especially for our son. Thank you for the love and support. We both choose to not entertain any questions on this matter. Please respect our family's privacy during this time. Last line couldn't be any better. He just posted a dance video across all the social media profiles in which he announces his divorce with his wife and son. And then he posts a message that's longer than the state of the union address in which his PR firm makes it abundantly clear that his wife wasn't feeling appreciated or whatever. And after all this,

we're told that if we're decent people, we'll respect his family's privacy during this time. So they've apparently attended the Harry and Megan School of Public Relations where you're taught that the best way to live a private life is to tell the public every detail of your private life, which is unsolicited, and then demanded the public not care about your private life, even though you obviously have done everything in your power to make them care, and you actually want them to care a lot. But the key line in that paragraph was this. She put her dreams on hold so I could chase mine.

And that tells you everything you need to know. This is the fantasy that leads to many, dissolved, millions of dissolved marriages. I mean, the idea that the wife, though living an incredibly blessed life where she's provided for and cared for, and has a family that loves her and is able to do anything she wants to do with her free time, which in her case is considerable, considerable amount of free time,

she only has one child and presumably a nanny. But even despite of that, still somehow she's been deprived. her dreams have been put on hold. As though if not for the marriage, you know, she would have gone off and discovered the key to light speed travel or something. When in fact, she would have just been working in a cubicle and spending her nights binge watching Netflix slop, which is indeed exactly what will happen now that she's divorced and free to go chase these unspecified and mostly non-existent dreams. We might call this form of psychosis Michelle Obamaitis. Michelle, of course, has lived a life of wealth and influence, despite having no skills or achievements of her own.

And now she spends every day, all day, announcing to the world that she's ready to start focusing on herself, which will be a marked change of pace from the first 60 years of her life, which she also spent focusing on herself. Just to drive this point home as if it needed to be, here's how she described in a recent interview what the next chapter of her life will be. Here's the title of the next chapter of her life, according to Michelle Obama. Listen. One word to describe your next chapter. One word. Fun.

Me. That's what you call. Drop the mind. You know what? You seem to be grading her higher on her answer. So the one word for her next chapter is me, she says. Which may sound almost comically self-centered, but we should cut her some slack, I guess. I mean, after all, she only knows three words in total, and the other two are I and myself.

Still, that me answer is arguably a bit offensive. I mean, some would say it's rather patriarchal and misogynistic for Michelle to focus the next chapter on a man. Some would say that. I'm not saying that I would say that because that would be a crass joke below the belt hit on Michelle Obama. I don't approve. I'm just saying that some people would make that joke. In any case, although Michelle and Barack are still technically married, I guess, this is all part of the same picture. the elites in our society promote selfishness. They preach it like a gospel. That's why they want us to see divorce as a celebratory occasion.

And divorce, of course, has always occurred. To some extent, it always will occur. We should do everything we can to mitigate it, but it will never be entirely eradicated. But acknowledging the divorce is a reality, an evil reality, but a reality all the same, is very different from actively celebrating it as a positive good. And yet this is what nearly every cultural institution insists that we do. That's why there's a whole subgenre of articles, think pieces, essays, memoirs, all revolving around the theme that divorce is good. And often, there's a whole subgenre of articles, think pieces, essays, memoirs, all revolving around the theme that divorce is good. And often, in the key to personal growth and fulfillment and empowerment. There are hundreds of, hundreds of examples of this kind of thing, but we don't even need to look past the last couple of weeks to find one. I mean, just take any, whatever week or month you're in, just like, go check. There's always one of these circulating around. So in June, Emily Radischkowski became the first, or rather became the most recent female celebrity, the most recent until Frankie Munez, to publish a long think piece extolling the virtues of her recent divorce in a piece for the Cut titled Mother Effer, she writes, quote, becoming a single mother changed the way people looked at me,

exactly as I feared it would, but it also allowed me to finally see myself. I wasn't left, I left. I knew then that being able to leave to say no was the only real superpower I'd gained through divorce. I was brave. Really actually brave. Yes, there's nothing more brave than betraying a vow. Of course, you know, to make a promise and then not follow through. Brave. Oh, so brave. Oh, so brave. brave. That takes, oh, that is so brave. On a scale of personal bravery and heroism, divorced single mothers ranked somewhere above wildland firefighters and Medal of Honor recipients. And of course, I say that sarcastically, but divorce single mothers like Emily would hear that and wholeheartedly agree with it without any irony whatsoever. Also this summer, we had this article in the Guardian

titled Hot divorcee summer. Get ready for big hats, hot sex, and don't care energy. The first few sentences of this monstrosity are all you need to really understand what's going on here. Quote, sorry, babe, I'm a divorced mom on a buffet of magnesium, glycinate, aschwaganda, peptides, and certraline. Covering a mortgage alone during late-stage capitalism, I don't give a F about your opinion anymore, wrote Megan McTavish, an Australian divorce fluencer, who went viral a couple of years ago because even after her split, her parents refused to take down her wedding photos. This might be the core of hot divorcee energy, an unvarnished devil-may-care spirit that seems to have captured the cultural moment this summer. So, of course, you're wondering how this differs from the Brat, last year's aspirational muse, who also emphatically did not care what the world thought. Though if you still confused about the difference between that and 2024's Hot Girl Summer, I suggest you go back in time and take last year's module again.

Taddy McLeod, a comedian and writer, broke it down for me. Brad was all about looking slightly disheveled, still in yesterday's makeup. You were supposed to look as though you hadn't made an effort. At the heart of DeVorce energy is, hell yeah, you've made an effort. Dvorce is high glam. Now, not to be too dramatic, but these are the kinds of articles that make you wonder whether it might have been better if the Black Plague had just finished wiping out the human race 700 years ago. I mean, it would have been nice if it had at least taken out all the people that carried the genetic defect

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You know, they look to their friends for validation before they do it themselves. It's called decision making by committee. It's when rather than make a bold decision by yourself, you seek the advice of your friends and the friends of your friends and advice columnist, a therapist, you're heavily influenced by what other people are doing and how they might judge you or not judge you. And it's obvious which gender is more likely to engage in this kind of decision making. Women overwhelmingly make decisions by consensus. This is why professional mediators and legal disputes are mostly women.

It's also why nearly all, basically 100% of the divorce as empowering propaganda comes directly from women or from cuckolded husbands like Frankie Munez at the behest of women. And this is a compounding effect. Women are much more likely to initiate divorce. Women tend to have more friends. The likelihood then of a woman having a friend who gets divorced is high and gets higher with age. And once that happens, the domino effect takes hold. women see those divorces and they feel emboldened to pursue their own divorce. Add in social media, now the global social network that we're all plugged into and you can see the problem.

They know they won't be shunned or stigmatized in anyway. They'll get the affirmation they're craving, so they go for it. Now, a key part of this strategy is to downplay the ramifications of divorce. Here's another example from a TEDx talk with hundreds of thousands of views. Watch. Thank you, divorce. That's what I said five years ago. when the judge issued me my divorce decree.

With that decree in hand, I was positive. Every problem I had was now part of my past along with my marriage. And as I walked out of the courtroom that day, I was sure I was walking towards a new life full of happiness. I was also sure that that perfect guy that was going to bring me that happiness was waiting for me right around the corner. Now let's fast forward a couple of months in the reality of being divorced with three little kids

was slapping me in the face. There were so many incidents that I was so ill-prepared for that were so hard. For instance, this one day the kids and I had gone swimming all day and on the way home they had all fallen asleep in the car. Yay.

But then, just as I was about to pull up in front of the house, I remembered we were all out of milk. In the past, I would have called home, asked the hubby to grab some milk, but there was nobody to call. So I thought, all right, kids, we're doing this. Turn the car around, drove to the local circle, K, went to one side of the car, got my son, Nathan, he was three at the time. Out of the car, I'm holding him here.

I go to the other side of the car. I gently shake my girls awake, Bella and Lacey. They were five and six at the time. They're half leaning against me, still half asleep. We walk into Circle K. Thankfully, somebody holds the door open. I'm just going to cut her off there because she never actually stops talking. That TED talk is still going on, in fact, nothing can stop it.

She'll continue speaking long after the sun has exploded and all living creatures have died like the dinosaurs. But the point is she's acting like one of the few consequences of her divorce is that she occasionally has to make an extra trip to the grocery store or something. It's very cynical, but it's also compelling to a lot of people. Certainly her audience at this fake TED talk enjoyed listening to what she had to say, it would seem. That's probably because everyone else, including the celebrities that these people look up to, they're all saying the same thing. I mean, they all speak about divorce in very clinical, detached terms to downplay the effects. This brings to my perhaps the most notorious example from several years ago. Many of us remember when Gwyneth Paltrow divorced Chris Martin, an event that would not have registered on most of our radars,

except for the incredibly pretentious way that they described it, which has become iconic in all the worst ways. Quote, we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we'll be able to continue in the same manner. So it sounds like she's describing a mechanical process, not a divorce between two humans. That's precisely why the corporate media loved it. The BBC wrote a series of articles about the profound philosophy

of Winneth Paltrow's divorce at the time. Quote, the new formulation comes from an essay on conscious uncoupling, written by Paltrow's spiritual advisors, Dr. Habib Sadeghi and Dr. Sherry Sami. Although it looks like everything is coming apart, it actually is all coming back together, they conclude. The Oxford English Dictionary is a citation of the use of uncoupling to describe the end of relationships from 1942.

Divorced lawyer Sarah Thompson of Slater and Gordon says uncoupling reminds her of two railway carriages being separated. The addition of the word conscious is there to tell people it's amicable. She says that she wouldn't be surprised that Palo-Martin used collaborative law. both parties sitting down at a table with a lawyer each and going through everything. It's often described as the nicest way to get divorced. When, as in the Palchral Marching, Martin case, there are children involved. It's a good idea to use age-appropriate language, says Denise Knowles, the counselor relate.

That's almost two on the nose, how they directly compare divorce to two railway carriages being separated. It's starting to think of a more dehumanizing comparison. It's also not accurate, you know, because in marriage, two become one. that's sort of the whole point. So a divorce is not separating train cars, but rather taking one train car with passengers inside and ripping it in half. Or better yet, divorce is derailing the entire train

only for the conductors to stand amid the smoking wreckage and mangled bodies and declare the scene is actually quite life-affirming. And then Frankie Munez shows up and starts dancing over top the corpses. I mean, that's basically what's going on if we want to use railway analogies. there's any upside to the trends that we're saying it's that divorce rates have been declining for some time now

marriages are more likely to last at the moment as compared to the turn of the century and that's a welcome and surprising development given the way social media creates social contagions and the way that every powerful institution and many powerful people have tried desperately at every turn to promote and encourage divorce at the same time while divorce becomes less popular so does marriage itself as forbes reports quote both the the marriage and divorce rates have declined over time. In 2000, a total of 944,000 divorces and annulments occurred. The crude divorce rate was four per 1,000 population during that year. By 2022, it had fallen to 2.4 per 1,000 with just 673,9,989 people divorcing that year. The marriage rate has declined to, dropping from 8.2 per 1,000 in 2000 to 6.2 per 1,000 in 2021. So while the declining divorce rate suggests that the constant pro-divorce propaganda has failed, the declining marriage rates suggest that the propaganda has actually succeeded even beyond the wildest dreams of the propaganda. After all, the only thing more empowering than dissolving a marriage is never having one

to dissolve to begin with. And there's a reason that the cultural powers that be want to create a society like that. They want weak families and abandoned children because weak families and abandoned children are infinitely easier to indoctrinate and control. You know, the same kind of people who would post memes to celebrate a political assassination will make a dance video to celebrate a divorce. I mean, it's the same idea, celebrating destruction. And it festers when we lose our ability or our will to identify evil when we see it. And tearing a family apart is evil.

No amount of dancing will change that. We all know it. In spite of the dancing and the divorce celebrations. the celebrations only serve to underline the evil. They reveal precisely the truth that they're meant to cover up. You don't go out of your way to convince the world you're happy with your decisions if you actually are happy with them. Frankie Munez and Emily Radischkowski and all the rest of them protest too much.

They are miserable and inviting every married couple to dissolve their marriage and join them in their misery. and that is one invitation that should be easy to decline. That will do it for the show today. And actually for the next two weeks, I'll be gone on vacation for a couple weeks, as is my tradition at this part of July, first part of July. We'll be back in a couple weeks. We'll have a lot of new content for you in the meantime, though.

So stay tuned for that and talk to you on the other side. Godspeed. A terror warning in northern Virginia. Radical Islam has designs openly on the west. The FBI ordered a terror. plot on New Year's Eve. Violence attack over the Halloween weekend in Michigan. Protests on college campus is showing no signs of stopping.